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If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 21 hours ago • 810 comments

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 21 hours ago • 249 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 21 hours ago • 1934 comments

submitted 21 hours ago • 233 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 21 hours ago • 415 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 20 hours ago • 310 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1149 comments

Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 20 hours ago • 148 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 20 hours ago • 764 comments

My new favorite drug is Republican members of Congress getting yelled at in their districts by constituents who hate Musk.

submitted 20 hours ago • 529 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

submitted 2 days ago • 531 comments

Garcia: The fact that the Trump DOJ now wants to silence members of Congress because we’re actually willing to take on Elon Musk is quite dangerous. It’s incredibly disturbing. But we’re not going to be silenced. We’ve got to push back.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 2 days ago • 2408 comments

According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 1 day ago • 678 comments

If you live in VA 2 attend this protest of Jen Kiggans feb-recess-2025_attend act.moveon.org/event/feb-re...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 1 day ago • 986 comments

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

submitted 2 days ago • 1132 comments

NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

submitted 2 days ago • 573 comments

"Presidents only get so much political capital. Trump has decided to invest his finite capital into supporting Putin's authoritarian regime in Moscow..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 499 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

To help homes survive more intense disasters, FEMA has been developing recommendations for stronger building codes. The Trump Administration has pulled them back.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

👇🏻

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Raise your hand 🖐️ and Repost if you think felon and lunatic Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president! I want all of my 168K friends to follow YOU! 💙 Like ❤️ and repost 🔄 and you will get MORE followers! 🚀 Who agrees? 🖐️

submitted 2 days ago • 1252 comments

It’s that second part

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Overheard at my local Foxtail Coffee: “Voting for him [Trump] was the biggest fucking mistake of my life.” No idea what drove him to say that, but whatever it was, I can’t feel much sympathy. So many Trump supporters are fine with other people getting hurt, and only get upset when they’re impacted.

submitted 6 days ago • 467 comments

This idiot is buying into the lies. 🙄

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Can anyone even think of a legitimate reason for him to get this? Can anyone even proffer an argument that it won't lead to grave abuses and violations of privacy? wapo.st/3QizwcN

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

All the more reason to post it as often as you can.

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submitted 6 days ago • 551 comments

Not flying...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

My grandfathers didn’t fight the Nazis so some future American Vice President could cozy up to a bunch of far-right, Holocaust distorting politicians in Germany. This is truly pathetic.

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

Money talks

submitted 6 days ago • 2306 comments

This is catastrophically dangerous. We’re all paying a price because Republicans let Elon Musk recklessly fire the people who help prevent nuclear disasters. "Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers at the NNSA — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile."

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.

submitted 6 days ago • 745 comments

Listen up, you star-spangled dipshits… because while you were telling me to “cry harder” for the bazillionth time today cuz I have the nerve to care about kids with cancer… THEY “ACCIDENTALLY” FIRED THE PEOPLE WHO OVERSEE OUR NUCLEAR STOCKPILE. Wake the fuck up dumbfucks.

submitted 6 days ago • 441 comments

Alice Weidel referred to Germany’s Holocaust Remembrance as a “guilt cult” less than two weeks ago. Shame on the Vice President for meeting with her.

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

Good Night #Bluesky friends! Wishing peaceful slumbers to you. 💙 🦋

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

We should have told them.

submitted 6 days ago • 384 comments

Judge Nathan 2021: "The Court remains of the view...that the disclosure failures and misrepresentations in this case represent grave derelictions of prosecutorial responsibility." Acting deputy A.G. Emil Bove's repeat legal ethics problems. via @weissmann11.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

“ACTING LIKE A KING’: MICHIGAN’S ATTORNEY GENERAL ON THE LAWSUIT TO UNDO MUSK’S DAMAGE” #DCMI www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 422 comments

Dear Global Friends, We know how you feel. We get it. We don’t recognize these people holding power either. We don’t recognize them as legitimate expressions of our values or principles as Americans. Thank you for voicing your disapproval and opposition. Signed, A concerned American

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments